Student Handbook 2018-19

D. The requirements of this section shall apply to any child in the custody of the Department of Youth and Family Services, or any child who may have been adjudicated as an adult, and who has not passed his eighteenth birthday. E. Within one calendar month of the opening of school, each school board shall send to the parents or guardians of each student enrolled in the division a copy of the compulsory school attendance law and the enforcement procedures and policies established by the school board. Each parent or guardian shall submit to the school board a statement, provided with the materials, acknowledging receipt of these materials.

ANNUAL NOTIFICATION TO PARENTS REGARDING THE LAWS GOVERNING PROSECUTION OF JUVENILES AS ADULTS The law permits those juveniles, age 14 years or older, to be prosecuted as adults under certain circumstances: 1. Charged with a crime, which would be a felony if committed by an adult; 2. Charged with capital murder, first or second degree murders, murder by lynching, or as the result of mob action, or aggravated malicious wounding. 3. Charged with the following offenses—second degree murder if by accident, a felony, injury by mob, abduction, malicious wounding, of a law enforcement officer, poisoning, robbery, carjacking, rape, forcible sodomy, or object sexual penetration. (Code of Virginia: 22.1-279.3, 22.1-279.4, 16.1-269.1 A/B/C)

ANNUAL NOTIFICATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND INVOLVEMENT REQUIREMENTS [§22.1-279.3 of the Code of Virginia]

§22.1-279.3 of the Code of Virginia contains provisions addressing parental responsibility and involvement that are intended to promote proper student conduct. Through the enactment of this legislation, the Assembly has asserted its position that parents do not relinquish their responsibility for disciplining or managing their children while they attend public schools. Rather, parents must work in partnership with school administrators to maintain a safe and orderly school environment. Most of our parents are involved and support our schools, helping to create the environment that is necessary to promote learning. Consequently, we recognize that we will not need to resort to the enforcement provisions in this legislation unless a parent willfully and unreasonably fails to meet their responsibility as outlined below. Rather, this legislation provides us with an additional tool for involving all our parents in assisting us in maintaining a safe school environment. Within one month of the opening of school, the school board must send to parents a copy of these requirements and a copy of the school board’s standard of student conduct. Parents must sign a statement acknowledging the receipt of the school board’s standards of student conduct and notice of the requirement of this section. NOTE: Parents are not precluded from expressing, through the appropriate channels, disagreement with the implementation of the school board’s standards of conduct. Parents continue to maintain the right to appeal a suspension or expulsion under §22.1-277 of the Code of Virginia. Each school must maintain records of the signed statement. Principal is authorized to request that the student’s parent meet with the principal or designee to review the standards of conduct and the parent’s responsibility to participate in disciplining the student, and to discuss improving the student’s behavior and educational progress.

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